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Dipsosaurus dorsalis (Desert Iguana)

Synonyms: Crotaphytus dorsalis; Dipsosaurus carmenensis; Dipsosaurus dorsalis carmenensis; Dipsosaurus dorsalis lucasensis

Wikipedia Abstract

The desert iguana (Dipsosaurus dorsalis) is one of the most common lizards of the Sonoran and Mojave deserts of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. They also occur on several Gulf of California islands. Their color is mostly grey and tan.
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Infraspecies

Dipsosaurus dorsalis dorsalis (Desert iguana)
Dipsosaurus dorsalis sonoriensis

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  70 grams
Birth Weight [2]  4 grams
Female Weight [2]  70 grams
Egg Length [2]  0.945 inches (24 mm)
Egg Width [2]  0.669 inches (17 mm)
Gestation [2]  45 days
Litter Size [2]  6
Litters / Year [2]  1
Maximum Longevity [1]  15 years
Reproductive Mode [3]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [2]  4.724 inches (12 cm)
Female Maturity [2]  2 years 8 months
Male Maturity [2]  2 years 8 months
Habitat Substrate [3]  Terrestrial

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
California Floristic Province Mexico, United States No
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands Mexico, United States No
Mesoamerica Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama No

Prey / Diet

Senna armata (desert senna)[4]

Predators

Arizona elegans (arenicola)[5]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Alaeuris yumanae[6]
Atractis scelopori[6]
Cyrtosomum scelopori <Unverified Name>[6]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 3Meiri, Shai (2019), Data from: Traits of lizards of the world: variation around a successful evolutionary design, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.f6t39kj
♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 5Food Habit of the Glossy Snake, Arizona elegans, with Comparisons to the Diet of Sympatric Long-nosed Snakes, Rhinocheilus lecontei, Javier A. Rodríguez-Robles, Christopher J. Bell, Harry W. Greene, Journal of Herpetology, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 87-92, 1999
♦ 6Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0